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And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.
But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua,
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.
And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.
And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.
And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.
And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
